Afro-German Women on the Move: From May Ayim to Black Lives Matter
Tiffany N. Florvil: Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement. University of Illinois Press. 2020.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2021.184Keywords:
Activism, Feminism, Intersectionality, Racism, Black GermansAbstract
Tiffany N. Florvil reconstructs the history of the modern Black German movement using numerous different and partly unpublished sources from private archives. In six chronologically structured chapters, Florvil works her way from the 1980s to the present, from Audre Lorde's Berlin years and May Ayim's literary activism to the emergence of central Black German organisations such as the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD) and Afrodeutsche Frauen/Schwarze Frauen in Deutschland e.V.. (ADEFRA) to Black Lives Matter. Particularly much space is given to Black German "activist-intellectuals" or "quotidian intellectuals" and their intersectional as well as transnational feminism.
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